longship

• “A museum in Denmark has reconstructed an Irish-built Viking longship which is on its way to Dublin, writes Rosita Boland”

  Sailing home with the Vikings

• “Erling's "longship" was one of the smaller-sized war vessels of the period.”

  Erling the Bold

• “A procession of torch-wielding guizers lead a Viking longship through the streets before songs are sung, the boat is burned and costumed revellers perform skits and routines and generally party until dawn.”

  The Guardian: This week's new events

• “Unsure whether One-Eye is a visitor from heaven or hell, they take him with them on their longship across a misty sea.”

  The Guardian: Valhalla Rising

• “When not leaping off the prow of the longship or whatever, even the berserkers led surprisingly domesticated lives, if the sagas are to be believed. on 08 Jul 2009 at 5: 03 am Ben Kane”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Robert Low, part one

• “With the Vikings, you have the added wrinkle of it being a right pain to transport horses by ship; or you could turn that around and say that the longship plus a long coastline and a lot of navigable rivers provided the Danes with some of the speed and mobility more traditionally provided by cavalry.”

  Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure

• “This intriguing scene of imposing anaconda versus Viking longship headlines the Mysterious Jungles habitat.”

  2009 March 16 |

• “An archaeologist using radar technology on Monday said he has found the outline of what he believes is a 1000-year-old Viking longship under a pub car park in north-west England.”

  1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab

• “Professor Stephen Harding used Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to trace the outline of a vessel matching the scale and shape of a longship, perhaps from the time Vikings settled in Meols, on the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside.”

  1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab

• “Here was the reason why no watchman could now ride the wolf-headed prow, and why Rhuan himself hunched behind the gunwale of his longship: arrows too feeble to punch through anything but the thinnest hide, yet capable of killing a man if they so much as scratched exposed skin.”

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